Six quotes that inspired globalTrue education means fostering the ability to be interested in something.

Sumio Iijima, Japanese physicist

It is books that are the key to the wide world; if you can’t do anything else, read all that you can.

Jane Hamilton, American author

The English language is nobody’s special property. It is the property of the imagination …

Derek Walcott, Caribbean poet

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Albert Einstein, German-American physicist

The mind is not a vessel to be fi lled,but a fi re to be kindled.

Plutarch, Greek historian

If you are going to write another coursebook for the English language, please try to do something a bit different.

An English teacher who wishes to remain anonymous

Lindsay Clandfi eld is a teacher, teacher educator and lead

author of Global. He was born in England, grew up in Canada, taught

at a university in Mexico, lives in Spain and has trained teachers from

around the world. He is also the creator of the popular blog Six Things

(www.sixthings.net), a collection of lists about ELT.

10 units 168 pages 14 extracts

from famous novels, plays and poems 46 vocabulary

sections 37 explanations of English grammar

10 functional English lessons 16 accents from

around the world in Global Voices 143 audio clips

30 video clips 240 interactive activities

100s of curious and

interesting facts

Global Advanced

by numbers:

Amanda Jeffries is a teacher, teacher educator and

author. She has taught in the UK and Chile specialising in

teaching at advanced level and developing speaking and

writing skills. As well as writing English language materials, she

currently teaches at the University of Oxford, and is involved in

setting up and running a range of teacher education projects.

About Global

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Fact & FictionIs Wikipedia part of a new ‘global brain’? Great museums A good story: the Arabian Nights Life beyond Earth: Just science fi ction?

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Light & DarkLight in art Cloths of Heaven by W.B.Yeats The Solar Solution Dialogue in the Dark Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing

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Theory & PracticeThe Myth of Mars and Venus by Deborah Cameron Cinema genre: Dogme 95 The El Sistema music miracle Pygmalion by GeorgeBernard Shaw

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Heroes & VillainsGilgamesh World Vision Volunteers Crimes and punishments Piracy The Stanford experiment

5Trade & CommerceThe Silk Road Freedom and Slavery: The Long Song by Andrea Levy Commerce in Bangalore The new golden age by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

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Hearts & MindsLife on this planet: The Beating Heart Romeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareMindfulness Nature or Nurture? Attachment theory

7 Time & MotionDifferent concepts of time and lifestyle Working Time Around The World Traffi c: Why We Drive the Way We Do by Tom Vanderbilt The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

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Local & GlobalWhen local goes global: Isolarion by James Attlee Why Eat Locally? Globalisation and football A Treatise on the Astrolabe by Geoffrey Chaucer

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Chance & DesignEveryday odds explained The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville Four controversial designs for buildings A Culture of Conspiracy by Michael Barkun

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Great & SmallGreat Expectationsby Charles Dickens Travel experiences Toy collections The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

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by David Crystal

page 15 English: just the facts?

page 39 Indian English

page 63 Linguistic heroes and villains

page 87 Shakespeare: the best

English teacher?

page 111 Changing English

Global English

Content highlights

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Contents 4

ContentsGrammar Reading texts Listening texts Vocabulary Speaking and Pronunciation

UNIT 1

Factpage 6

Present simple and continuous for facts and trends (p9)

Is Wikipedia part of a new ‘global brain’? (p6)

The world’s most adventurous museums (p8)

Interview about museums (p8)

P Personal facts (p6)

EV Collocations for going online (p7)

The world’s most adventurous museums (p8)

Fictionpage 10

Ellipsis (p13)

Future forms (p14)

Just science fiction? (p12) The Arabian Nights (p10)

Reacting to a question (p12)

Emotional reactions (p11) Fiction and stories (p10)

P Emotional reactions (p11)

EV Prefixes (p12)

Function globally: Making plans and arrangements (p14)Global English: English: just the facts? (p15)

Writing: An online encyclopedia entry (p7) A story (p11) A job application (p16)Study skills: Setting goals (p17)

UNIT 2

Lightpage 18

Future predictions (p21) Cloths of Heaven (p19)

Real and metaphorical light (p19)

The Solar Solution (p20)

Light in paintings (p18)

Cloths of Heaven (p19)

Real and metaphorical light (p19)

The Solar Solution (p20)

Light in paintings (p18)

P Chunking (p19)

The Sun (p20)

Darkpage 22

Narrative tenses (p25) Dialogue in the Dark – An exhibition to discover the unseen (p22)

Through the Tunnel (p24)

Sounds (p22) Disabilities (p23)

Through the Tunnel (p24)

EV Ways of describing fear (p24)

Difficult experiences (p25)

Function globally: Agreeing and disagreeing (p26)Global voices: Phobias (p27)

Writing: Sounds (p22) A story (p28)Study skills: Exploring collocations (p29)

UNIT 3

Greatpage 30

Relative clauses (p30) Great Expectations (p30)

Great travel experiences (p32)

Great Expectations (p30)

Geographical sites (p32)

Numbers (p33) Greatness (p30)

Hopes and expectations (p31)

Great travel experiences (p32)

EV great (p33)

P Numbers (p33)

Smallpage 34

Compound nouns (p35) The God of Small Things (p36)

Childhood toys (p34)

The God of Small Things (p36)

quiet and silent (p37) EV small or little (p34)

Collecting (p35)

P Weak and strong forms (p36)

quiet and silent (p37)

Function globally: Narrating and responding (p38)Global English: Indian English (p39)

Writing: A small toy (p34) An essay (p40)Study skills: Improving your reading efficiency (p41)

UNIT 4

Theorypage 42

Modals: language functions (p43)

Modals of obligation (p45)

Past modal forms (p45)

Gender differences (p42)

The Myth of Mars and Venus (p42)

Dogme 95 (p44)

Communication problems (p42)

Theory and research (p42)

Cinema (p44)

Gender differences (p42)

The Myth of Mars and Venus (p42)

Cinema (p44)

Practicepage 46

Determiners (p47) El Sistema (p46) Pygmalion (p48) Skills (p46)

Small talk (p48)

P Question tags (p48)

Accents (p49)

EV Similes (p49)

Function globally: Asking for clarification (p50)Global voices: Practice (p51)

Writing: Theory and research (p42) A manifesto (p45) A review (p52)Study skills: Working on pronunciation (p53)

UNIT 5

Heroespage 54

Present perfect simple and continuous (p57)

Gilgamesh (p54) Gilgamesh (p54)

Unsung heroes/World Vision volunteers (p56)

Heroism and personal qualities (p54)

Expressions with stand and give (p55)

World problems (p56)

Heroism and personal qualities (p54)

Unsung heroes/World Vision volunteers (p56)

EV Abbreviations and acronyms for international organisations (p57)

Villainspage 58

Participle clauses (p61) Piracy (p58)

The nature of evil (p60)

Piracy in Somalia (p58)

Crimes and punishments (p58)

Crimes and punishments (p58)

Piracy in Somalia (p58)

P Word stress (p59)

Stanford experiment (p60)

EV Ways of describing bad people (p60)

Function globally: Managing conversations (p62)Global English: Linguistic heroes and villains (p63)

Writing: News reports (p57) A report (p64)Study skills: Register awareness (p65)

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Contents 5

ContentsGrammar Reading texts Listening texts Vocabulary Speaking and Pronunciation

UNIT 6

Tradepage 66

The passive (p67) The Long Song (p68) The Silk Road (p66)

Ways of looking (p69) EV change and exchange (p66)

P List intonation (p66)

Freedom and slavery (p68)

Commercepage 70

Cleft sentences (p73) Bangalore (p70)

The new golden age (p72)

Ideas for India’s future (p70)

Problems (p71) Bangalore (p70)

Tackling problems (p71)

Investments (p72)

EV gold and golden (p72)

Function globally: Negotiating (p74)Global voices: Customer service (p75)

Writing: Emails (p76)Study skills: Learning language in context (p77)

UNIT 7

Heartspage 78

Articles (p79)

Unreal conditionals 1 (p81)

The Beating Heart (p78)

Romeo and Juliet: The balcony scene (p80)

Romeo and Juliet: The balcony scene (p80)

P /ð/ and /θ/ (p79)

EV Collocations with heart (p81)

Mindspage 82

Gerund and infinitive (p85) Mindfulness (p82)

Attachment theory (p85)

The developing brain (p84)

mind (p83)

Nature vs Nurture (p84)

Concentration and daydreaming (p82)

Nature vs Nurture (p84)

P /tʃ/ and /ʃ/ (p84)

Function globally: Dealing with difficult situations (p86)Global English: Shakespeare: the best English teacher? (p87)

Writing: Advice (p81) An argument (p88)Study skills: Improving your speaking skills (p89)

UNIT 8

Chancepage 90

Real conditionals (p91)

Unreal conditionals 2 (p93)

What are the chances? (p90)

The Idea of Perfection (p93)

The Idea of Perfection (p92)

Verbs describing accidents (p92)

Awkward situations (p92)

EV chance (p90)

Probability (p91)

The Idea of Perfection (p92)

Verbs describing accidents (p92)

Awkward situations (p92)

P have (p93)

Designpage 94

Passive reporting (p97) Four highly controversial designs (p94)

Ruled by Design (p96)

Buildings (p94) Describing reactions (p95) Buildings (p94)

A short message or response about a building (p95)

Conspiracy theories (p96)

Function globally: Giving a presentation (p98)Global voices: Places (p99)

Writing: A short message or response about a building (p95) Conspiracy theories (p97) An article (p100)Study skills: Extensive reading (p101)

UNIT 9

Timepage 102

Unreal past time (p103)

Quantifiers (p105)

Working Time Around The World (p104)

Concepts of time (p102)

get (p104) Time (p102)

Concepts of time (p102)

EV Collocations with time (p102)

Working Time Around The World (p104)

Motionpage 106

Comparisons (p107) Traffic (p106)

The Secret Life of Bees (p108)

The dance of the honeybees (p108)

Formal and informal language (p109)

EV UK / US English (p106)

Congestion problems (p107)

Animal behaviour (p109)

Function globally: Being interviewed (p110)Global English: Changing English (p111)

Writing: A proposal (p112)Study skills: Improving listening (p113)

UNIT 10

Localpage 114

Plurals and number (p117) Isolarion (p114)

Why Eat Locally? (p116)

Food choices (p116)

Your neighbourhood (p114)

Isolarion (p114)

EV Collocations with road (p115)

Why Eat Locally? (p116)

EV have (p116)

P Plurals and number (p117)

P /s/ and /z/ (p117)

Food debate (p117)

Globalpage 118

Inversion (p119) A Treatise on the Astrolabe (p120)

Globalisation and football (p118)

Globalisation (p118)

Using technology (p120)

Globalisation (p118)

P Stress and rhythm (p119)

The World Cup (p119)

Technological inventions (p120)

Function globally: Making proposals and suggestions (p122)Global voices: Memories of places (p123)

Writing: Your local journey (p115) A technical manual (p121) A website entry (p124)Study skills: Celebrating your achievements (p125)

Communication activities: Student A: (p126) Student B: (p129) Student C: (p127) Student D: (p131)

Additional material: (p131) Grammar focus: (p132) Phonetic symbols (p152)

Audioscript: (p153) Irregular verbs (p166)

EV – Extend your vocabulary P – Pronunciation

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